Summary: Many of us are sitting around with 20 year old prophecies. It’s so easy to become disappointed, disillusioned or bitter when it seems like God hasn’t come through like we expected.

Intro.: In our “crying out and lifting up our voices”. We find that God has a sort of soft spot. He is tender concerning our spiritual poverty, persistence and hunger. Jesus related a story in Luke 11:5-8 that illustrates persistence. We are all familiar with the next two verses.

READ: Luke 11:9-10. The friend in the 1st passage gave bread not because the other man was a friend, but because he was persistent. He refused to give up and stop asking until he got an answer.

Concl.: Many of us are sitting around with 20 year old prophecies. It’s so easy to become disappointed, disillusioned, burned-out and even bitter when it seems like God hasn’t come through like we expected.

What we don’t understand is two-fold:

1. God wants us to actively pursue, not passively wait on, His promises to us